Hal Brands (born 1983) is an American scholar of U.S. foreign policy. He is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the

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(SAIS) and a resident scholar at the

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. He graduated from

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with a BA in history and political science and earned his MA, MPhil, and PhD in history from

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. His father is the historian

H. W. Brands Henry William Brands Jr. (born August 7, 1953) is an American historian. He holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his PhD in history in 1985. He has authored 30 books on U.S. histor ...

Bibliography

Books

* * ''Latin America's Cold War'' (2010) * ''What Good is Grand Strategy? Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush'' (2014) * (editor, with Jeremi Suri) ''The Power of the Past: History and Statecraft'' (2015) * ''Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order'' (2016) * ''American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump'' (2018) * (With Charles Edel) ''The Lessons of Tragedy'' (2019) * ''The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today'' (2022)

Critical studies and reviews of Brands' work

;American grand strategy in the age of Trump *

References

External links

American Enterprise Institute ProfileSchool of Advanced International Studies profileForeign Policy Research Institute profile

The case for Bush revisionism: Reevaluating the legacy of America’s 43rd President
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